Bhagabanpur Assembly Elections 2016

After its win in 2011, Trinamool Congress (TMC) has been able to consolidate its place in the Bhagabanpur assembly constituency. The CPM, plagued by internal feuds, has lost ground resulting in the demoralization of its cadres. BJP though better placed than Congress is not in a position to challenge the hegemony of the TMC.

Bhagabanpu Assembly Election Candidates List and Results

Name of the Candidate

Party Name

Results

Ardhendu Maity

AITC

Won111201

Hemangshu Shekhar Mahapatra

INC

79258

Prasanta Panda

BJP

7802

Priyabrata Dutta

IND

1634

Ansar Ali Sk

BSP

1621

Ashoktaru Pradhan

SUCI(C)

1259

NOTA

NOTA

1149

Goutam Pradhan

BNP

763

Thakurdas Mandal

ABHM

540

West Bengal Election

Ardhendhu Maity is the sitting TMC MLA of Bhagabanpur which was won by him for the third time in a row in the last assembly election in 2011 by defeating his nearest CPIM rival Ranjit Manna by 8997. In that election while Ardhendhu Maity polled 93,945 votes, the CPM nominee received 84,948 votes and was distantly followed by BJP’s Sadananda De who secured 4,763 votes.

Ardhendhu Maity is the sitting TMC MLA of Bhagabanpur which was won by him for the third time in a row in the last assembly election in 2011 by defeating his nearest CPIM rival Ranjit Manna by 8997. In that election while Ardhendhu Maity polled 93,945 votes, the CPM nominee received 84,948 votes and was distantly followed by BJP’s Sadananda De who secured 4,763 votes.

Earlier Ardhendhu Maity had been elected from Bhagabanpur in 2001 and 2006. CPM had won the seat last time in 1991 when its candidate Prasanta Pradhan emerged victorious. Prasanta Pradhan lost the subsequent election to Ajit Khanra of the Congress in 1996.

One of the sixteen assembly constituencies in the Purbi Medinipur district of West Bengal, Bhagabanpur covers Bhagabanpur, Kotbarh, Kajlagarh and Shimulia gram panchayats of Bhagabanpur- 1 block, Basudevberia, Arjunnagar, Baroj, Jukhia, Itaberia, Mugberia and Radhapur gram panchayats of Bhagabanpur-2 block, and Mathura and Argoyal gram panchayats of Patashpur- 2 block.

Bhagabanpur is one of the seven assembly constituency falling under Kanthi Lok Sabha constituency.

Bhagabanpur has a total of electors eligible to cast their votes to elect their representatives from the seat. Of them, are male voters and were women voters.